The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-15

expenditures.
THE list of the contributors to the Gar
field campaign fund of 1870 from the Patent
ONCE, as unearthed in the late Disbursing
Clerk Bacon's papers, was made public on
the 9TH, but only one clerk from Missouri
down on the list.
OSCAR J. HARVEY, late an employee Of the
Treasury Department, has been arrested,
charged with defrauding the Government
His defalcatlons were thought to be about
$4,000.
THE EAST.
A MONUMENT to the late General Burn
side was unveiled at Providence. r. l., on
the 18th. The work is Of bronze and repre-
SCENTS the General on horseback nine feet
high.
THE other morning man by the name Of
Glacus Evans Olds was found dead in his
room in New York, dressed in woman's
clothes.
AN aeronaut named Garage has died in
Oiean, N. Y, from the effects Of q fall from
his balloon on the 4th.
THE comedian Edward Lamb died at
Brooklyn recently. His trouble was
cancer Of the stomach. He was fifty eight
years old and had been an actor for thirty
five years.
JUSTICE GoRMAN at New York the other
day committed Vlntrelia Van Rensselaer,, q
ten-year-old colored girl, to the House of
Mercy, but the sister of mercy in charge
refused to receive her because she was
colored.
In a speech at Scranton, Pa, the other
evening, T. V. Powderly urged the neces-
sity for restraint on immigration. He want
ed all new corners to have been self-sup-
porting at their old homes.
WHILE Postmaster Flanagan and his
clerks were delivering mail at Astoria, l..
l., the other day some person entered the
rear Of the Office and carried on a book of
blank postal notes, together with the
stamps and punches used in issuing them.
CLARENDON, Pa, was swept by fire on
the night Of the 4th. But very little was
left of the place, the loss amounting to
$4,000.
The mortality of New York excitcs
the 5th, 2OS.
Six suicides were reported in New York
in one day recently.
NINE persons were seriously injured by
the fall Of the roof Of dining hall during
q picnic gwen by st Johns Catholic
Church at Susquehanna, Pa, on the 4th.
RICHARD CRoNAN, while attempting to
swim across Niagara river recently, start
ing from the maid of the Mist'' landing,
was caught in current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. He was
from Boston.
JOHN SLADE & Co.. dry goods, New York,
have assigned. Preferences, 500, ITO.
The attendants, McHugh and Cleary, who
were lately placed in custody by the YER
dict Of the coroner's jury, who accused
them Of beating an inmate of Wards Island
Insane Asylum, named George Farris, so
brutality that the man died, have been in
dicted for manslaughter by the New York
grand jury.
YAM PHoN LEE, Q Chinaman who gradu
ated with high honors at Yale recently, has
been married to Miss Elizabeth Maud Je-
rome, New Haven, Conn, heiress.
AT Q meeting Of the First Assembly dis
trict Of the United Labor party at New
York Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn was elect
ed q delegate to the national convention at
Syracuse on August 16.
MARK SHANNON, q well-known sculptor,
while at work on the Government building
1t Erie, Pa, recently, fell from the roof to
the ground. He was picked up dead.
The works of the Conesus Lake Salt and
Mining Company at Lakeville, NY, burned
the other day. Loss, $50, 900.
The Boston Daily advertiser and the ESes-
ing Record have been sold to Charles E.
Within, Of Whitinsville, for 100000 The
stock Of the old corporation is wiped out,
and all Of the old stockholders retire from
theownership IN the new concern.
FORTY ladies took the white and black
wells at the Malinckrodt Germany convent
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9Th.
JUDGE WALLACE, Of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, has given . de
cision in the case OF the United States
against General Badeau to recover $1O,5 So
which it was claimed that he had kept
while he was Consul General at LONDON.
The result was . verdict in favor Of the
General
AN explosion Of gun cotton at the celu-
loid works 1t Arlington, n. J., caused the
deaths Of a man and q woman recently. A
dozen others were injured. Loss, $4,000.
WALTER VRooNAN, Q socialistic knight
of Labor, was snubbed on Q recent visit to
the headquarters at Philadelphia.
A RIOT was reported at the West Leisen-
ring pa coke works on the 9TH. Four Of
the strikers were shot and killed and two
wounded. Later the reports were denied.
An excited feeling prevailed all over the
coke region.
CYRUS W. FIELD published q card in New
York the other morning stating that he
and Gould were on the best OF terms and
that reports to the contrary were false
Es field) and associates had sold 1900
shares Of Manhattan to Gould, but there
would be no change in the directory.
SEVEN hundred of DR.. McGlynn's former
parishieners recently held q meeting ct
which the Pope and Archbishop Corrlgsn
were jeered at and threats OF excommuni-
cation defied.
THE WEST.
1cMuNN. the desperate and pal Of
stBlinky" Morgan. has been captured at
North Lansing, Mich.
Thomas s. BALDWIN dropped from Q bal
loon, holding parachute. at Quincy, Ill,
on the 9Th. He reached the ground in
safety.
The Union Labor party Of Ohio has NOM
mated the following ticket: Governor,
John Dietz, of THIN; Lieutenant-Goyernor,
+. N. Mcdonald, OF Springfield; Supreme
Judge, long term, Tim OConner. of Cincin-
matt: short term, Granville N. Tuttle, of
gainesville; Auditor, o. ]. Suffer. of
Akron; Treasurer, E. P. Earter, Of ALI
ance; Acknowledgement, William Baker, of
Newark: member of public works Carl A